Motivational Quotes

Hope

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don't give up.

- Anne Lamott

Best Quotes about Hope

1.

There is hope for all of us. Well, anyway, if you don't die you live through it, day in, day out.

Becker, May L.

2.

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

3.

The hours that we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with success.

Goldsmith, Oliver

4.

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.

Hazlitt, William

5.

Man is a victim of dope in the incurable form of hope.

Nash, Ogden

6.

Men and women are limited not by the place of their birth, not by the color of their skin, but by the size of their hope.

Johnson, John

7.

That glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing.

Euripides

8.

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

9.

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

10.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.

Thomas Hobbes

12.

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

Marden, Orison Swett

13.

Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions. It's a sort of spiritual clap, I should say.

Miller, Henry

14.

Honest winter, snow clad and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not uncordially; but that long deferment of the calendar's promise, that weeping loom of March and April, that bitter blast outraging the honor of May -- how often has it robbed me of heart and hope.

Gissing, George Robert

15.

Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Proverb Don't look back, you can never look back.

Henley, Don

16.

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.

Jackson, Jesse

17.

Though you are disappointed is hope; never let hope fail you! Though one door is shut, there are thousands still open to you.

Ruckett

18.

He who has health, has hope. And he who has hope, has everything.

Proverb, Arabian

19.

With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured.

Lincoln, Abraham

20.

Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,--'Wait and hope'.

Alexandre Dumas

21.

While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

22.

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

23.

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

24.

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

25.

Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul. And sings the tune Without the words, and never stops at all.

Emily Dickinson

26.

I can endure my own despair, but not another's hope.

William Walsh

27.

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

28.

I've found that the chief difficulty for most people was to realize that they had really heard new things: that is things that they had never heard before. They kept translating what they heard into their habitual language. They had ceased to hope and believe there might be anything new.

Ouspensky, Peter Demianovich

29.

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

Rohn, Jim

30.

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

Kingsolver, Barbara

31.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

Angelou, Maya

32.

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

33.

Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. It's simply a choice to take action.

Anna Lappe

34.

We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics. They will only grow louder and more dissonant in the weeks to come. We've been asked to pause for a reality check; we've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.

Barack Obama

35.

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

36.

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

37.

History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.

George W. Bush

38.

To the sick, while there is life there is hope.

Cicero, Marcus T.

39.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

40.

To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.

Channing, William Ellery

41.

The darkest day, If you live till tomorrow will have past away.

Cowper, William

42.

In the factory we make cosmetics; in the store we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

43.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

44.

In all things it is better to hope than to despair.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

45.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

Epicurus

46.

Hope is the expectation that something outside of ourselves, something or someone external, is going to come to our rescue and we will live happily ever after.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

47.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

48.

Our hopes are but memories reversed.

49.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

50.

Never lose hope.